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SLRG deputy director Andy Stirling developped a new App to help analyse complex issues and make decisions

A new web-based application that helps to analyse complex issues and make decisions was launched on Monday 20th October 2014. The Multicriteria Mapping (MCM) tool has been developed by Professor Andy Stirling, an academic with the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex, in collaboration with the Sussex Innovation Centre, and DabApps – a Brighton-based digital applications developer...Read more

New working paper by Dr Alexia Coke, summarising her RESOLVE research on the UK transition movement

The PASSAGE working paper 14-03 outlines the main findings of a qualitative PhD research carried out within the ESRC funded research project RESOLVE. It explores the strategies for a low carbon future being adopted within the UK Transition movement and highlights potential policy, practice and academic learning in relation to community action on climate change and resource scarcity...Read more

The purpose of this paper is to draw on data from 16 interviews (two each with eight women) to explore some of the ways in which everyday shopping may change as women become mothers. The question here is not whether women purchase different products or consume more once they have a child, but rather how does the everyday activity of shopping for groceries and the meanings it has change with new motherhood and what sustainability implications might this have ...Read more

The site will be a source of news and information about Tim Jackson's work both as ecological economist and as radio dramatist. It is updated regularly and offers links to his talks, publications and radio plays. Browse the new website here.

New SLRG Publication by Chitnis M, S Sorrell, A Druckman, S Firth and T Jackson. The study estimates the combined direct and indirect rebound effects from various types of energy efficiency improvement and behavioural change by UK households and explores how these effects vary with total expenditure...Read more

To test Thomas Piketty's hypothesis that slow growth rates lead to rising inequality, Tim jackson and Peter Victor developed a simple four-sector, demand-driven model of Savings, Inequality and Growth in a MAcroeconomic framework (SIGMA) with exogenous growth and net savings rates. They then used SIGMA to explore the evolution of inequality in the context of declining economic growth...read more

Outspoken on education and democracy in Christchurch, Bronwyn Hayward is a voice to reckon with, Beck Eleven writes

Following the recent "Critic and Conscience of Society" research prize that was awarded by the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and jointly made to Bronwyn Hayward (political science) and Tim Veling (fine arts), the SLRG Visiting Fellow shares anecdotes about - and insights into - her work with children and youth in economic, social & environmental change. Read the full interview here.

In societies based on immediate, multi-tasked interactions, where high speed living has become the norm, an increasing number of citizen groups worldwide have decided to develop and live sustainable alternatives to the prevailing principles of never ending growth and ever faster transaction...Read more

The Sustainable Green Infrastructure Conference 2014 is being held on 23 October 2014 at the newly refurbished British Library Conference Centre. The conference is chaired by Kirsten Henson; speakers include Helga Dittmar and Mike Wells...Read more

This milestone provides a broad overview of model development under Work Package 205 of the WWWforEurope project. It describes briefly the challenge of modelling combined economic, ecological and financial systems and sets out a series of objectives for modelling the socio-economic transition towards sustainability...Read more.